What do you cook on your boat?

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Following on from Bosun Higgs post, about FB pies, what do you cook aboard?

I know some people cook nothing, maybe warming a pastie is all that the oven gets used for. Its a different story on Galadriel, we like our food, proper food, so if we have not taken aboard home precooked food we will prepare and cook anything that the limited size of the oven will allow.

We have before now had people aghast when we tell them that we will cook a chicken, roast spuds, p'snips and all the other veg on a Sunday whilst sailing back to our home marina.

How about the rest of you? Is the fridge or cool box full of good food or just beer and the main diet being pot noodles?
 
Depends how long we are going for, overnight maybe some premade (at home) and frozen (handy in the coolbox to keep beer and wine cold) lasagne or tuna pasta bake, occassionally BBQ meats. Longer trips all sorts and not averse to doing a full roast dinner when the need is felt.
 
Same here I’ll cook anything really our lack of a proper fridge can be a bit limiting but that will get addressed in time. I have done full roasts on board with out any problems. The thing these days some people wouldn’t cook that at home ;)
 
We have no oven and no fridge. If at anchor or on a mooring we usually eat tinned meat, once the fresh has been eaten or gone off.

In a marina in the UK we would cook fresh meat or fish on board. We rarely eat ashore in the UK because we have so often been disappointed (exception = fish & chip shops!) If in a French marina we very often eat ashore, otherwise we coook fresh meat or fish.

The longest passage we undertake is a Channel crossing, or from the Channel Islands to Brittany, during which we eat sandwiches etc. or the Old Guvnor might produce cheese on toast.

Despite having no oven our D&P skillet allows small joints to be roasted. In a marina our Remoska will handle a small joint.

Really we eat very well and healthily.
 
We only have a small boat with no oven or fridge so keep a selection of 'Look What We Found' meals along with Uncle Ben's boil in the bag rice and a big jar of pasta. Two saucepans and 15 mins later you have quite a tasty and filling meal and very little washing up. We both get a bit queasy spending too long down below whilst moving so the less effort the better. Enough variety for a long weekend along with the customary start of the day egg, bacon, tomato and fried bread fry up.
 
I cook.

I'll have a bash at more or less anything I'd do at home, but two dishes that seem to keep recurring are a chicken curry based on Nathan's recipe and grilled lamb steaks with garlic and rosemary. I'll do potatoes and some kind of green veg (mange tout, beans, etc) with the lamb, the curry just gets naan bread and rice.

I do generally pick up one of those pre-prepared meals in a foil tray (bit more than just a "ready meal") for the first evening as we tend to get away late, hence anchor late and want to eat dinner as soon as we arrive. Those things can be bunged in the oven once the anchorage is in sight and left unattended while you arrive.

Sausage sandwiches are always good for lunch. We used to get through pounds of bacon in sandwiches for breakfast, but no longer feel like that every morning. Similarly I haven't bothered with a full fryup on board for years - it never quite seems worth the effort compared to a simple bacon&egg butty.

I get through a lot of part-baked bread. Just make sure it's well damped with water before going in the oven, and turn it round halfway through so the back one doesn't burn. Helps that I have a fairly heavy oven dish that distributes the heat a bit.

I've never cooked a sunday roast on board, but I've eaten a couple over the years. The more recent one was cooked by my mate simply as something to do on a very calm day :)

Pete
 
I cook fenders on my boat. The only problem is they mark the gelcoat with big black marks.
I need to get the brillo pad out!
 
The simplest way to do bacon rolls, is to precook the bacon at home and wrap it in foil in the correct portions, this you then pop in the oven, a lot less messy than using a frying pan.
 
Proper onboard dinner . . . . . . . MMmmmm food

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If you have an oven you can cook more or less anything you would at home.

I hate cooking but I have been having a go lately.

Here are some ideas. Some don't need an oven. The sweet and sour chicken is particularly recommended for a boat with no oven

Lemon butterfly cakes Coffee cake
Beef in black velvet porter Ingredients for beef in black velvet porter
Home-made vegetable soup

Ingredients for sweet and sour chicken
Ingredients for chicken in white sauce Chicken in white sauce
Pork chop
Iced cakes
Christmas pudding
Roast turkey Roast duck
Cakes
Toad in the hole
Shepherd's pie Shepherd's pie
Ingredients for shepherd's pie
Lamb chops
 
And afew more:

Lemon meringue pie
Chicken pie
Gammon and pineapple
Cold meat, jacket potato and home-made green tomato chutney
Next years's Christmas puddings
Pineapple upside down pudding
Stuffed pork tenderloin Beef stew with dumplings

:D
 
The safe way to do chips on the boat if you have an oven

Prepare and chip the spuds.

Bring to the boil in some lightly salted water.

Drain and dry

Put into a roasting tin containing a tablespoonful of cooking oil preheated to 200C

Cook for about 25 minutes at 200C, turning once.

I learnt this from "Blue Peter"
 
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galadriel said:
Following on from Bosun Higgs post, about FB pies, what do you cook aboard?

I know some people cook nothing, maybe warming a pastie is all that the oven gets used for. Its a different story on Galadriel, we like our food, proper food, so if we have not taken aboard home precooked food we will prepare and cook anything that the limited size of the oven will allow.

We have before now had people aghast when we tell them that we will cook a chicken, roast spuds, p'snips and all the other veg on a Sunday whilst sailing back to our home marina.

How about the rest of you? Is the fridge or cool box full of good food or just beer and the main diet being pot noodles?
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We eat out a lot when boating.
But when we cook we do nice things. I like the cobb barbecue and the oven gets used a lot. We would never, ever have a tinned pie!
I've eaten well on Galadriel:)
But sit down dinner for 9 (it surprised me that worked!) on evenstar seemed to go down well, unless you were just all being polite :)
 
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